I See Your Point(er)
You know what I’m totally used to now that would probably shock anyone else who looked at my computer screen?
My big-ass cursor.
If you recall, I (somewhat jokingly) made my cursor the size of Andre the Giant when I got my new big monitor. I’ve since scaled it down a bit, but it’s still much bigger than a normal cursor. Behold:
Cursor next to the Google logo.
Pointer finger pointing aggressively at Gmail.
I love it.
Hahaha, I remember these!
My mom? A PC person.
My dad? A Mac person.
I remember going to his office on campus and he’d have one or two of those original iMac computers (the ones with the big backs and transparent color cases) in there for his grad students to use. He also had one at his condo and we had a tangerine iBook clamshell.
Lotsa Mac, is what I’m saying.
Back in…junior high?…he gave me one of the old iMacs and I would set up a little cushion fort in the living room around the coffee table (where the iMac was) and just play and type and do random stuff on that computer.
One of the things I’d do was play with the MacInTalk voices because they were fun and I was 12.
Anyone else remember these?
That “Hey you! Yeah, you! Who do you think I’m talking to, the mouse?” whispered phrase still lives in my head today.
New Compy!
ALLO, NERDS!
So I finally got a new computer a few weeks ago (my old one was from 2015 and the Online Learning Era pretty much murdered it) and just got around to setting it up. I also got a giganto new monitor.
LOOK AT THIS BOX!
LOOK AT THIS MONITOR! Cup for scale.
Edit: Yo, I changed my cursor size to the “Andre the Giant” setting and it’s HUGE. I love it so much; I think I’m going to keep it like this.
COMPY DEAD, YO
Ugh. So that new laptop I just bought?
Dead.
Died the same way as the first one.
Why is this happening in the busiest part of my freaking year.
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Edit: Okay, fuck it, switching brands. Got an Acer. The keyboard feels like Jesus. It’s got an SSD so it starts up in like a nanosecond.
I’m digging it.
COMPY
I got a new computer. BEHOLD!
His official name is BIG COMPY THE REDUX 2015 EDITION XXL MEGA BIG AWESOME-TRON, but I just call him Big Compy for short.
This is actually the first time I’ve ever bought a desktop computer for myself. Old Big Compy was my mom’s from like 2008 or so; it somehow survived about 8 moves around the continent before crapping out on me, forcing me to get the new guy.
But this is also the second computer I’ve bought this year, which is a little stressful (recall I had to replace my laptop back in February).
Actually, this whole year has been about most of my stuff finally breaking/falling apart/becoming unusable. Hopefully my iPod will make it to the end!
WOO!
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